[albatross710]

When I was at a hotel without a printer I use our company's fax server to fax the print job to hotel reception. The bar code still works when boarding.

I like doing it in a geek sort of way.

[codash1099]

This trapped me once or twice too. (Slow on the uptake? Who? Me?)

As an aside, I've tried to work out why OLCI in PER is so difficult at -24 hours. Found out yesterday - somehow QF forgot or missed daylight saving in WA. OLCI is only available from -23 hours !!

[tscharke]

I too am guilty of the "snaring the best seat" trick without printing the BP!

I follow up their raised eyebrow with "the printer malfunctioned" excuse

[serfty]

On Sunday, OLCI'd from KIX for my SYD-MEL flight Monday afternoon but was unable to print my BP.

At international transfer in SYD I had to queue to get one printed; was easily done at the counter and I was on my way.

[JohnK]

Originally Posted by Mal

If you don't tell the staff you've already online checked-in, then you can get a very quizical look as to what you're up to (I think they see you as checked in already, so expect you to either have a boarding pass or a reason why you're turning up looking for your boarding pass).

I had this happen to me a few times last week. I kept checking in online the night before, did not print boarding pass, and would just turn up to the regional airports to check in luggage and get boarding passes.

They could see that I had already checked in online and were more concerned that I did not print boarding pass. I kept using the excuse that I did not have access to printer at which point they said OK and printed off boarding passes for the day.

I did not have the heart to tell them that I detest plain A4 paper boarding passes and preferred the real cardboard boarding passes.

[aubs]

Report on FT that the new machines will print a Boarding Pass even if you have already OLCI'd

[openseat]

Originally Posted by aubs

Report on FT that the new machines will print a Boarding Pass even if you have already OLCI'd

As already posted above in post #6.

[serfty]

Except that these new machine do not print traditional cardboard BP's; a flimsy piece of paper with the 2D barcode.

Far less robust than paper OLCI BP's.